Missing Memories

“It’s okay but it’s weird cause I think you could pull off being my brother.” she shrugged and smiled when she looked back down to Finn. “Finnick Jr. Named after his amazing father but I think I’ll call him Finn for short.” she played with his hands and looked at Simon. “Would you like to hold him?”

“I mean, obviously, we annoy each other enough to be siblings.” He said lightly, smiling as he gingerly reached out to touch the babies hand. “Finn, not as good as Simon Jr but I think it’s fitting.” Her next words caught him off guard and he shook his head. “I don’t think so, he’s so tiny, I don’t wanna drop him.”

“While that is definitely true, I was a Spider-Fan way before Andrew Garfield.”

“Fair enough, but then I definitely don’t understand why you prefer Spiderman to Deadpool.”

They got to the hospital as Annie sighed when the pain was over as she got wheeled down to the delivery room and it was only 2 hours later she was carrying her baby boy.

As soon as they let Simon into the delivery room, he practically ran to Annie’s side. “Sorry, I tried to see if I could be in there with you but they wouldn’t let me and they didn’t believe me when I claimed to be your brother..” The words came out in a rush but he stopped abruptly when noticing the bundle in her arm. “What name did you choose?”

Isabelle almost choked on a laugh, she had missed him so much – it just felt right to be reunited with him again. “Obviously.” For a few moments she stayed silent, remembering her anger towards the situation, the helplessness. “It was horrible – losing you – I never imagined it could ever be possible.” She closed her eyes, taking a deep breathe for herself to calm down. Losing her little brother had been enough, to lose the one person she loves the most next to her brothers couldn’t be described as anything else than torturous. “I’m just glad to have you back.”

Her words pulled at his heart. He knew that he wouldn’t change his decision but he wished that he could find a way to do it without hurting her. She had already been through so much, she didn’t deserve to go through losing him if it hurt as much as she said it did. “I’m glad to be back.” Simon didn’t want to mention that he wasn’t sure if his memories were going to stay when they got back to the mansion. He wanted to enjoy this time with her while he could. “Do you wanna go do something together, Izzy? Or we could cuddle and watch a movie..”

“Sorry dude, but if any boy has ever had my heart, it’s definitely Spider-Man.”

“It’s because Andrew Garfield played him, isn’t it? Us guys just can’t compete with him.”

Charlie tried to remember what it was like when he had first talked to Patrick. Or well, ‘Nothing’ at the time. He remained calm. But, if it was hard for him to make friends in 1999… how could he make friends now? At least this was another boy. A boy that seemed nice enough.

“I’m Charlie.” He attempted to plant his feet firmly in the ground. That’s always what his father taught him, stand tall with firm feet. “It’s good to meet you Simon.” A small smile moved over his face. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad. “Do you know how to get a good meal here?”

“It’s nice to meet you.” This boy had to be new here, Simon had never seen him before and he was normally pretty good with faces, unless he had his memories taken but that wasn’t a fair comparison.

If this boy was new than Simon definitely wanted to make sure he was comfortable. People had been very welcoming to him and it was only fair that he treated others with the same courtesy. “Yeah, there’s a burger joint across the street from the hotel. Let’s go there.”

“You don’t really have much to be sorry about,” she smiled sheepishly, she’s done much worse than he ever had. “Yeah, as mundane as they come. But as ironic as it is, I’m actually a vegetarian, so, maybe no hamburger for me.”

“I never knew that about you, that’s interesting. Let’s not go to a hamburger place then. We can go get a vegetarian pizza or something.”

“Please hurry Simon!” she wrapped her arms around her belly as she winced in pain trying to calm herself down and focusing on how long it would take to get to the Hospital. “Take a right there cause it’s a shortcut!” she pointed it out to him.

“I’m going as fast as I can.” He replied worriedly, trying to drive as fast as he could without putting them in danger, though he barely made the shortcut as she pointed to it. It was only another five minutes and they made it to the hospital. Quickly running to her side to help her out, “Let’s get you inside.”

Jim raised a brow, for once unsure what to say - sure, he’d been praised before but a default ‘thank you’ didn’t seem appropriate, for some reason. “… Batman? Maybe you have me mixed up with someone else.”

Simon fell quiet for a few moments as he tried to think of how to respond to that. He didn’t want to screw up anything for this guy by spoiling that he was going to be working with a superhero in the future. “You probably just haven’t met him yet.”

“Unless there’s another me, I’m gonna go with… yes?” Jim smiled lightly in return, gaze flickering to the floor before he turned to close the door after himself and Simon. “A fan?? … Thanks, I guess.”

“That’s awesome, I’m a little star struck right now.” He admitted. “You’re welcome. I have a question for you..What’s it like working with Batman? Like, obviously you’re already awesome but the fact that you work with him is even cooler.”

“Never said I told the whole truth either. At least I’m sorry for it… well, most of it, at least.”

“I’ll take a mostly sorry. I’m sorry too.” He was silent for a moment, “So you’re human now because of the no magic thing, right? Do you want to go eat normal food? If I had remembered being a vampire I would have definitely enjoyed my first hamburger as a mundane.”